Perennials & Biennials

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  • Thymus pseudolanuginosus Woolly thyme Z 4-8

    Wonderful groundcover or in rock gardens for its miniature, very hairy silver leaves, resembling wool.  Lavender flowers in June.

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    Grown as a groundcover or in rock gardens for its miniature, very hairy silver leaves, resembling wool.  Lavender flowers in June.

    Size: 1” x 12” spreading slowly
    Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil.
    Native: Europe
    Wildlife Value: Drought tolerant. Deer resistant

    Thymus from the Greek word for “odor” due to the plant’s fragrance. Ancient Greeks made incense with thyme.  This species 1st mentioned in Gardeners Dictionary by Phillip Miller of Chelsea Physic Garden fame, 1771.

  • Thymus serpyllum ‘Minus’ syn. T. praecox ‘Minus’ Dwarf thyme Z 4-8

    Tiny-leaved, miniature thyme, lilac-colored flowers in early summer, used as a groundcover or for fairy gardens and rock gardens.

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    Tiny-leaved, miniature thyme, lilac-colored flowers in early summer, used as a groundcover or for fairy gardens and rock gardens.

    Size: 2" x 6"
    Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
    Native: Europe
    Wildlife Value: Deer resistant.
    Size: Great for rock gardens, groundcover, drought tolerant.

    Thymus  from the Greek word for “odor” due to the plant’s fragrance. Ancient Greeks made incense with thyme.  ‘Minus’ described by Parkinson in 1640.  He called it Thymus serphyllum vulgare minus.

  • Thymus serpyllum syn. Thymus praecox Mother-of-thyme, creeping thyme Z 4-9

    Short purple spikes in June-July

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    Short purple spikes in June-July

    Size: 3” x 24”
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Europe & Western Asia
    Size: groundcover, rock garden, herb, fragrant foliage, thyme lawn

    Thymus  from the Greek word for “odor” due to the plant’s fragrance.  Ancient Greeks made incense with thyme.   This species since at least 1753. Acc’d to Parkinson in 1640 this remedied hysterics in women.  Wm. Robinson wrote,”nothing can be more charming than a sunny bank covered with” Thymus serpyllum.  LH Bailey extolled it as “prized as an evergreen edging and as cover for rockwork and waste places …The leaves are sometimes used for seasoning.”

  • Tiarella cordifolia Allegheny foam flower Z 3-9

    White spikes in spring, gorgeous en masse. Make a great groundcover for shade.

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    White spikes in spring, gorgeous en masse. Make a great groundcover for shade.

    Size: 6-12”x 12-24” spreading
    Care: Shade to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Novia Scotia to Georgia, native to Wisconsin.
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

    Tiarella is Latin meaning little tiara referring to the form of the pistil.   The common name is derived from the form of blossoms.  Cherokee used this plant to remove the white coating on their tongues.  For the Iroquois it increased the appetite of children and cured sores in their mouths. One of 1st No. American plants sent to Europe – grew in Tradescant the Elder’s South Lambeth nursery in 1634.  Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.  Liberty Hyde Botanist L.H. Bailey described Tiarella cordifolia as:” An elegant plant well worthy of general culture.”  Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.

  • Tradescantia bracteata Spiderwort Z 4-9

    rosy purple flowers July-August

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    rosy purple flowers July-August

    Size: 12-18” x 12”
    Care: full sun to part shade in moist well drained soil
    Native: Minnesota south to Texas
    Wildlife Value: attracts bees & butterflies

    Genus named after John Tradescant the Younger, an English botanist, who introduced Tradescantia virginiana to garden cultivation in 1637, when he sent it to his father, gardener to King Charles I.   This prairie plant collected before 1938.

  • Tradescantia virginiana Spiderwort Z 4-9

    Purple umbels with prominent yellow stamens June – October

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    Purple umbels with prominent yellow stamens June – October

    Size: 18-24" x 24"
    Care: Full sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: From New York to South Dakota, Virginia and Arkansas
    Wildlife Value: Bumblebees and honeybees eat the nectar and collect the pollen.

    Named after John Tradescant, an English botanist and gardener to King Charles I.   Parkinson explains the origin of this plant: “This Spider-wort is of late knowledge, and for it the Christian world is indebted unto that painfull industrious searcher, and lover of all natures varieties, John Tradescant who first received it of a friend, that brought it out of Virginia,” (1639). It was probably sent to mainland Europe in 1500’s. Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.  Tradescantia was cherished by the Dakota Indians for its beauty.  Cherokee ate the young greens and prescribed it to cure stomachaches after overeating, female illnesses, cancer and insect bites.  Menominee revived those “defiled by touch of bereaved.” Natives applied a poultice of the leaves topically for insect bites and stings. By 1659 ones with white, light blue and reddish flowers grown in England. According to Monticello.org the root exuded a gummy liquid which, when inserted into a cut on top of a person’s head remedied the person’s “craziness.” Cultivated in the U.S. since 1700’s

  • Tricyrtis hirta Japanese Toad Lily, Hairy toadlily Zone 4 – 8

    flowers white with purple spots.

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    From August to October flowers white with purple spots.

    Size: 2-3' x 12"
    Care: Moist well-drained soil in part shade to shade
    Native: Japanese islands of Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu
    Awards: Oklahoma Proven 2010, Rated good by the Chicago Botanic Garden

    Name Tricyrtis is Greek meaning “three cavities”, supposedly describing the outer petals.  Originally collected for the West by Swedish Carl Pehr von Thunberg (1743-1828) who traveled spent seven years collecting plants in South Africa and Japan and Indonesia. Japan in 1775-1776. (1743-1828) Named by English botanist Sir Joseph Hooker in 1863. The Japanese name for this plant hototogisu, means “cuckoo” because the purple dots on the petals resemble the spots on the cuckoo bird’s chest.   purple dots on the petals resemble the spots on the cuckoo bird’s chest.

  • Trillium grandiflorum Large flowered Trillium, Wake robin Z 4-8

    Pure white trio of petals atop whorl of leaves in May. Ephemeral.

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    Pure white trio of petals atop whorl of leaves in May. Ephemeral.

    Size: 12-18” x slowly spreading
    Care: shade to part shade in moist soil
    Native: Quebec to Georgia, west to Minnesota WI native
    Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Picks

    Chippewa made decoctions of Trillium for aching joints & sore ears. Menominee cured many ailments with this Trillium: irregular menstrual periods, cramps, diuretic, swollen eyes and “sore nipples and teats pierced with a dog whisker.” Collected by Frenchman André Michaux (1746-1802) who spent 11 years in America collecting hundreds of new plants.